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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the replicators launched from Earth?
(a) They started to conquer other species across the galaxy.
(b) They multiplied into vast networks across thousands of star systems.
(c) They were almost all destroyed.
(d) Only 3 survive.

2. What does Tyler hint is the reason for Spin?
(a) Aliens wanting to end the human race.
(b) An experiement that went awry by the Russians.
(c) Spin is a way of delaying the end of the world that humans were bringing onto themselves.
(d) Aliens giving humans a longer life span.

3. What did the replicators require that no one but Jason knew?
(a) A power source other than the sun.
(b) A human to enable communication.
(c) Renewal annually.
(d) A means of overcoming inertia.

4. What makes Tyler get nauseous as he views Diane's wounds?
(a) Tyler's Fourth Age State.
(b) He is seasick already.
(c) He has a migraine headache.
(d) His glasses are broken and he's seeing double.

5. What does Jason tell Tyler?
(a) To leave the Lawton home.
(b) That Jason killed E.D.
(c) That Diane should stay under Tyler's care.
(d) He has some extremely important things to say that need recorded.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the freighter take Diane and Tyler?

2. Why is the Spin partially turned off?

3. Why does the person tip off E.D.?

4. What is launched from an American site?

5. What does Jason think Wun Ngo Wen might have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jason dying?

2. What does Jason report to Tyler about the replicators a few years after they were launched?

3. What happens in the summer with the sky and why does Simon call Tyler? How does Tyler respond?

4. How is Jason's health, what does he ask Tyler to do and how does Tyler respond?

5. As Tyler, Diane and others are waiting to leave what happens?

6. What is in the envelope Tyler received after from Jason after he died? Why did Jason leave him the envelope?

7. What does Jason tell Tyler about the Martian ambassador, conditions on Mars and why he was sent?

8. What does Tyler wonder about Diane and how does she respond?

9. What does Simon say about his conflict between Diane and his beliefs?

10. Where do Diane and Tyler go at the end of the book? What was the ultimate purpose of the Spin membrane?

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